Finance Analyst

Brown-Forman; Región Centro; On-site; MXN 420,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Brown-Forman Mexico is seeking a Finance Analyst to provide support and analytical insight, partnering with Finance Managers to analyze business performance and promote a culture of analytics. The role reports to the USA&C Finance Manager and influences pricing, forecast, and decision-making.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams (sales, marketing, operations) on descriptive and predictive analyses, support monthly close, rolling forecasts, and market pricing actions to improve

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, statistics or engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree with at least 2 years of business experience or equivalent.
• Fluency in English.
• Strong financial and analytical capabilities.
• Ability to collaborate across Sales, Marketing, Operations and Finance.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across functions to align analytical efforts with business priorities.
• Perform descriptive and predictive analyses to drive action.
• Rolling forecast and budget planning with a focus on pricing.
• Assist in pricing, discounting, and market pricing insights.
• Ad hoc reporting and presentations support for reviews.

Skills

Financial analysis

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication skills

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, statistics or engineering

Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, statistics, or mathematics

Tools

Microsoft Office

Google Applications

Tableau

SAP

Job description

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Meaningful Work From Day One
The Finance Analyst role will provide support and analytical insight, and will partner with Finance Managers to analyze business performance. As a critical finance business partner, the Finance Analyst will execute against organization-wide analytical priorities, promote a culture of analytics, and support our commercial management processes and systems. This person will report to a USA&C Finance Manager.

What You Can Expect

Promote a Culture of Finance & Analytics

• Collaborate across functions (finance, sales, marketing & operations) to align analytical efforts against business priorities.
• Perform analysis to formulate insights that drive action. Areas of analysis will be broad based and will include financial, distribution, velocity, consumer, customer, etc.
• With the manager’s oversight, conduct descriptive and predictive analysis both independently and collaboratively.
• Perform post-promotional analysis to evaluate program/spend effectiveness, ROI and deal level lift analysis.
• Ad hoc requests related to market/cluster, e.g. channel, distribution and account analytics, supporting the forecasting process and inputs for business reviews.
• Actively participate in rolling forecast and budget planning, with a focus on pricing.

Pricing & Margin Analysis

• Assist in all processes related to pricing and discounting, including validation of discounting, maintaining/updating price structures, resolving pricing errors, scan/coupon tracking, and invoice processing.
• Support the annual pricing guidance process, including seeking to understand the overall pricing environment/trends, leveraging insights to identify opportunities, and quantifying implemented pricing actions throughout the year.
• Partner with the National Account Managers (“NAM’s) to provide market pricing in advance of NAM’s customer meetings.

Supporting Commercial Management Processes & Systems

• Assist in the resource allocation process to ensure resources are efficiently allocated across the team.
• Ad hoc reporting and presentations support (MBR/QBR, New Item Presentations, etc.).
• Partner with FP&A to process monthly, quarterly and year-end financial close related requirements (come-in, journal entries, accrual backup, prepaids, etc.).
• Provide pricing to help complete the New Item Setup process.
• Provide supplemental MRM support beyond the Region SMS scope.
• Reconcile distributor investment funds and support sales manager oversight process
• Support Finance Manager in daily Finance department activities

What You Bring to the Table

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, statistics or engineering (preferable).
• Experience: Bachelor’s Degree with at least 2 years of business experience or equivalent experience.
• Language: Fluency in English.
• Strong financial and analytical capabilities.
• Demonstrated intellectual curiosity, creativity, passion for problem-solving, and strong diagnostic skills in order to connect the dots and provide a thorough business analysis.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills, relationship building, and influencing skills with the ability to collaborate with partners across a broad organization (Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance).
• Experience with utilizing various software/data sources for analysis (e.g. Microsoft Office, Google Applications, Tableau, SAP, etc.).
• Demonstrated professional maturity, business acumen, sound business judgment, and ability to provide advice to management based on objective and impartial analysis.
• A proactive self-starter.
• Ability to work both independently and within a team while putting the success of the group ahead of personal ambitions.
• Personal honesty and integrity: the ability to effectively handle confidential information.

What Makes You Unique

• Experience: Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, statistics, or mathematics.
• Commercial finance and pricing experience.
• Beverage alcohol or consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry experience.

Who We Are

We believe great people build great brands. And we know there is Nothing Better in the Market than a career at Brown-Forman. Being a part of Brown-Forman means you will grow both personally and professionally. You will have the opportunity to solve problems, seize opportunities, and generate bold ideas. You will belong to a place where teamwork matters and where you are encouraged to bring your best self to work.

What We Offer

Total Rewards at Brown-Forman is designed to engage our people to ensure sustainable and profitable growth for generations to come. As a premium spirits company, we offer equitable pay structures for individual and company performance alongside a premium employee experience. We offer a range of premium benefits that reflect our company values and meet the needs of our diverse workforce.

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Requisition Type:

Employee

Management Level:

Professional

Global Job Level:

P5

Number of Openings Available:

1